Answers to Self-Test Questions

  1. 1. Main memory and auxiliary memory.

  2. 2. Software is just another name for programs.

  3. 3. The two numbers to be added.

  4. 4. All the grades on all the quizzes you have taken in the course.

  5. 5. A high-level-language program is written in a form that is easy for a human being to write and read. A machine-language program is written in a form the computer can execute directly. A high-level-language program must be translated into a machine-language program before the computer can execute it. Java bytecode is a low-level language that is similar to the machine language of most common computers. It is relatively easy to translate a program expressed in Java bytecode into the machine language of almost any computer.

  6. 6. Java ...

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